Three years ago, when I published a story about Tony Wright, an innocent man incarcerated 25 years for the rape and murder of a woman he never met (“The Trials of Tony Wright: How DNA Exonerated Convicted Murderer“), I wrote that a black man “has a better chance of justice …
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On Monday, Mexican authorities closed in on Keith Raniere, co-founder of the controversial, cult-like self-help group NXIVM. The Albany, New York-based NXIVM is, according its website, “a community guided by humanitarian principles that seek to empower people and answer important questions about what it means to be human.” Charged with …
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The cast and creator of Parks and Recreation slammed the National Rifle Association after the gun lobby used a GIF of the show’s protagonist, Leslie Knope, to thank its spokeswoman following a televised town hall on gun control. CNN hosted the meeting Wednesday night, one week after a gunman used …
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The Weinstein Company‘s board of directors “unanimously voted” to fire the company’s chief operating officer David Glasser following the civil rights lawsuit levied against the company by the New York Attorney General. “The board of The Weinstein Company has unanimously voted to terminate David Glasser for cause,” the Weinstein Company’s …
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Last week, several high-ranking editors and veteran reporters were fired from Newsweek, following a January 19th raid of their New York City office by the Manhattan District Attorney as part of an investigation into the publication’s finances. The nearly 85-year-old magazine, as well as the International Business Times, are both …
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It’s a mystery that’s haunted Hollywood for over 35 years – was actress Natalie Wood’s untimely drowning death in 1981 a tragic accident or murder? The then-43-year-old was staying on her yacht off the coast of Santa Catalina Island, California, during the filming of the movie Brainstorm in late November …
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For the first episode of Unfiltered with Kelly Rizzo, Rolling Stone headed to L.A. to meet the adventurous star of web series Eat, Travel, Rock. We sat down with Kelly Rizzo right before her first full ride around the West Coast city she recently decided to call home as she …
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Two women have accused Steven Seagal of sexual misconduct, including a rape that one of the women claimed took place in 1993. The accounts, first reported by The Wrap, describe an alleged pattern where the actor would invite women to places where they expected to find multiple people, only to …
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California sold its first doses of legal recreational marijuana Monday, twenty years after its residents first voted to legalize pot for medicinal purposes. Last year, California voters made it legal for adults over the age of 21 to grow, possess and use marijuana, but selling pot for recreational purposes was …
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Born to a rock & roll musician father and a teacher-painter-writer mother, Billy Raffoul was all but destined to become a musician. “I grew up in a very artistic and expressive household,” Raffoul remembers. “I got my first guitar when I was 10 and started writing songs right away.” By …
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